Ross Dinwiddy

Ross is a playwright, theatre director and film maker.

He was born and brought up in the South Wales valleys amongst the remnants of the mining industry and close to the Brecon Beacons. On leaving school he worked as an archivist and then a photographer in Cardiff and for the Pontypridd Heritage Museum. Later he moved to London and took a BA in Film & Television at what is now the University of the Arts, London. He has since directed a number of films including 'Modern Monsters' and 'The Last Stop'.

Ross turned to theatre directing and after a successful and award nominated debut with a revival of Joe Orton’s 'Ruffian on the Stair', he began to write and direct his own works starting with 'Franz Kafka – Apparatus', based on Kafka’s 'In the Penal Colony' which was nominated for Best New Play at the Brighton Fringe Awards. He followed this up with 'The Geminus', an imaginative adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s, 'The Secret Sharer', which was also nominated for Best New Play at Brighton Fringe. 2020 saw the completion of his most ambitious work to date, a reimagined stage version of Oscar Wilde’s 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Updated to the latter half of the 20th Century and renamed, 'The Tragedy of Dorian Gray', it follows Dorian’s journey from 1965 as a young man newly married to famous actress, Sybil Vane, through to the turn of the new millennium. 'The Tragedy of Dorian Gray' won the inaugural OffFest Award from the Offies at Brighton Fringe.

Ross has also written a fantasy-adventure novel, 'Danyrogof Deep', for middle readers set in South Wales. The inspiration for the novel was Ross’s own childhood in Wales and the many traditional myths and tales of Welsh culture.